Background: Ideal Continuing Education?

Ideally, a continuing education experience would provide for effective, efficient, and enjoyable learning. It would probably involve a visit to a major medical center, with opportunities to counsel, evaluate, and manage a variety of patients, interact with renowned experts who act as mentors, and attend excellent lectures. Of course, it would all be scheduled around your busy clinical practice, available whenever you had the time, without travel.

Virtual Mini-fellowships™ aspire to meet these desirable qualities for continuing education with a "Virtual Clinic", a highly detailed, computer-based environment that is intuitive and easy to use.

This program, dealing with genetics in clinical practice,

• is available anytime, on most commonly available computer system;
• applies sound pedagogy and learning theory to create a carefully-designed, well-produced, comprehensive program of instruction;
• provides case-based learning with simulated patients, allowing you to explore medical and psycho-social dimensions of genetic counseling;
• features faculty members who are experts in their field who:
• provide detailed and insightful case discussions, in context with each simulated patient encounter,
• offer "mini-lectures" on a variety of relevant genetic topics
• provides examples of "best practice" genetic counseling
• offers links to recommended Web sites for further information
• allows you to "interview" real patients with genetic conditions

These qualities are provided within a Virtual Clinic, a highly detailed, computer-generated environment that is intuitive and easy to use. We're convinced that you'll find this mini-fellowship to be a unique, informative, efficient, and highly enjoyable way to learn!